Sara Alessi

LONDON: Sky Vision has notched up a host of sales for its true-crime programming, with 32 broadcasters across 155 countries picking up titles such as It Takes a Killer and Passport to Murder.

LONDON: Cineflix Rights has acquired distribution rights for two new series, including Bizarre Murders, from L.A.-based Bellum Entertainment.

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has closed three deals for factual titles across North America, including the sale of Wicked Inventions to American Heroes Channel.

PARIS: Terranoa has inked several package deals for its factual content, including a 35-hour sale to Canal+ Poland.

LONDON: UKTV has commissioned two retrospective specials featuring Sir David Jason as part of Gold’s 25th birthday celebrations.

MIAMI: NATPE presented the third annual Reality Breakthrough Awards at a ceremony hosted by comedian Bob Saget at the Fontainebleau, with O.J.: Made in America taking home the prize in the documentary category.

PARIS: France 5 has commissioned Pernel Media to produce the blue-chip documentary miniseries Extreme Earth (working title).

LONDON: In a move designed to bolster its factual department, Channel 4 has added former Channel 5 exec Michelle Chappell to the documentaries commissioning team, among other appointments.

PARIS: ZDF Enterprises’ (ZDFE) natural-history series Big Pacific will have its world premiere screening at MIPDoc in April.

Craig McGillivray, the VP of distribution, talks about the company’s growing factual and lifestyle catalog and trends he has been seeing in that space.